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Changing the Playing Field It’s go time. We take the field and get ready to throw down. Everyone is ready to give their best to the challenging task at hand. Every last ounce of energy is about to be used, so hopefully everyone has been saving it up. We start and the pace is immediately quick. Everyone is on their toes, making sure to avoid the people coming at them. Each move must be as precise and accurate as human error can allow. Muscles burn and oxygen seems to be depleting quickly, but we…

Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946, Theodore Robert Bundy was a wicked child of Louise Cowell which during the next few years they spent living with Louise’s parents. There were speculating to believe they led Ted and others believe that his mother was his older sister. Others believed it was during this time that Ted had been traumatized by his aggressive grandfather. It was not until at age four Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington where Ted’s mother went on to marry an army cook,…

Hunter Eikenberry “Walkoff” It was going to be a hard day, and it was a big day. Everyone was happy about today. My family and I woke up in the morning feeling great. We went down into the lobby of our hotel to get some breakfast. Then we went to the baseball field where I was playing in the championship. We were playing solid and I was having a good game going three for three with one home run. We felt confident because we were the home team which meant we had the last…

A charming young man with a bright political future, Ted Bundy would commit travesties that the world could not have possibly predicted. A serial rapist and murderer, Bundy eventually admitted to killing 36 women, with most experts believing the actual number to be over 100 (“Capital Punishment”). When the shocking evidence was revealed, Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death. During his nine years on death row, he cost taxpayers over 5 million dollars and received three extensions on his…

One night in the Spring of 2013, I was playing little league baseball in Pinetops, NC. The game was close and it was against our archrivals, the Yankees. My team, the Red Sox, were the best team in the league, and we were determined that we weren’t going to lose to our rivals in one of the biggest games of the year. It was a tied ball game, and one of the players on the Yankees named Levi came up to bat. Levi was a tall, strong, extremely cocky, but I will say, he is a really good baseball…

WVU picked up right where they left off when Game 2 got underway. Sophomore Kyle Davis led off the first inning with a double to center field and advanced to third on Freshman Darius Hill's fly ball to right. Ivan Vera grounded out to shortstop Kyle Wrighte, scoring Davis. Jackson Cramer gave the Mountaineers a 2-0 lead when he drilled his eighth home run to left center. Senior southpaw Ross Vance got in some trouble early in the third inning. He gave up a one-out double to W&M's Matthew…

“A swing and a drive. It’s back, way back there, going, going, I don’t believe it! That ball is outta here!” Mickey Mantle is known as the father of baseball’s “Tape measure Home Run,” meaning the ball was hit so far, they needed a tape measure to figure out how far the ball actually went. Ending his career with 536 homers, many of them flew out of the ballparks helped him earn his many respects as one of the best players baseball has ever seen. Growing up, Mantle was born in an extremely poor…

allow for the stunt to be executed in a safe and visually appealing manner. In this case, I will be talking about basket tosses. Due to the extreme care that needs to be taken for this stunt to be completed safely and successfully, there are many rules and regulations. In fact,…

Each play on the dusty diamond is executed with purpose, precision, and perfection on this searing, blistering August day in 2017. Eye black streaks our faces and dirt is smothered on our deep blue uniforms. Undoubtedly, we are sore from the games we played throughout the week. Game after game, we pitched, hit, and ran. Over and over again. Afterwards, we would party in the hotel, crash the swimming pool, eat at restaurants, and compete at bowling alleys. Despite the entertainment, when it is…

One of my mom’s best friends is Nikki, they’ve been friends since High School, so it’s easy to say that I’ve known Nikki all my life. Nikki at that time is married to Matt, and only had one daughter, Kylie. Nikki and Matt had only recently been married and moved into a new apartment not far from where my Mom and I lived. It was quite common that my mom and Nikki would take turns on who was babysitting, it was usually only for a couple of hours. One weekend in August 2004, Nikki and Matt…